From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 6 14:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay01.chello.nl (smtp.chello.nl [212.83.68.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507C737BAD1 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay01.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000606211730.JCZR8610.relay01@chello.nl>; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:17:30 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA02613; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:16:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:16:47 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Troy Arie Cobb Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FATAL FS Mount bug in -STABLE and -RELEASE Message-ID: <20000606231647.A2551@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tcobb@staff.circle.net on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 05:00:17PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 05:00:17PM -0400, Troy Arie Cobb wrote: Well, it would not hurt to (also) send-pr(1) it. Other than that my guess is that people are busy with other things(?) Wilko > I'm a bit surprised that after two days no one has said anything about > this fatal bug. Am I submitting this incorrectly? > > - Troy > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Troy Arie Cobb [mailto:tcobb@staff.circle.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:35 AM > > To: 'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org' > > Subject: RE: FATAL FS Mount bug in -STABLE and -RELEASE > > > > > > More information: this problem does NOT occur on the > > latest 3.4-STABLE > > release. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Troy Arie Cobb [mailto:tcobb@staff.circle.net] > > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 1:10 PM > > > > > > I've found a fatal filesystem mount bug in both 4.0-STABLE > > > and 4.0-RELEASE, > > > tested on the 20000604 snapshot of 4.0. > > > > > > With both the GENERIC kernel and a custom kernel, the > > system hangs > > > tight when more than about 256 filesystems are mounted. I've > > > tested this with loopback NFS mounts, remote NFS mounts, > > > and local NULL mounts. The machine freezes, responds > > to pings and > > > changing of virtual console, but accepts no input. No > > > errors are written to > > > /var/log or console. A hard reset is the only way out, > > CTRL-ALT-DEL > > > doesn't work. > > > > > > Please tell me what other info we can provide. This should > > > be easy to > > > reproduce, though I'd be happy to give anyone the perl > > > scripts we use > > > to tickle the bug. -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message